Why is the Auburn School Department bent on making Auburn not affordable for a family to come here? School Department officials pushed for the extravagant new high school, but how will the city manage to pay for the upkeep when the old building couldn’t even be maintained? When “Maine’s Got Talent” appeared at the Franco […]

Recently, I learned that the bill for open primaries had been voted down in the Maine Legislature. It made me wonder if members of the Legislature want to keep independents from voting. As a longtime independent, I choose to vote based on candidates’ qualifications, not political parties. I have experienced having to register and unregister […]

The Sun Journal headline (June 12) proclaimed a big “yes” for a new Edward Little High School. The story told how ELHS principal Scott Annear cried out “yes” at news of the voting results. Auburn School Superintendent Katy Grondin announced that “the community spoke loud and clear,” and Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque claimed that “the […]